Shut Up and Let the Lady Teach: A Teacher's Year in a Public SchoolEmily Sachar's acclaimed series in New York Newsday about her year as a teacher in Brooklyn's Walt Whitman Junior High School won the nation's most distinguished award for education reporting. The response from teachers, parents and concerned citizens across the country was overwhelming. Now expanded to book length, here is an urgently needed, clear-eyed, and compassionate report from an urban battlefront: our inner-city schools. |
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SHUT UP AND LET THE LADY TEACH: : A Teacher's Year in a Public School
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Of Basketballs and Crowded Halls | 11 |
Wanted Almost Anyone | 25 |
At Last a Job | 37 |
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| Title | Shut Up and Let the Lady Teach: A Teacher's Year in a Public School |
| Author | Emily Sachar |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Poseidon Press, 1991 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Nov 3, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0671690345, 9780671690342 |
| Length | 331 pages |
| Subjects | › Education / General |
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